Background The need for an ethical debate about the use of coercion in intensive care units
(ICU) may not be as obvious as in other areas of medicine, such as psychiatry. Coercive …

Purpose The use of coercion, in a clinical context as imposing a measure against a patient's
opposition or declared will, can occur in various forms in intensive care units (ICU). One …

Background: In spite of a national strategy for reducing coercion in the mental health
services, Norway still has a high rate of involuntary treatment compared to other European …

Experiences of coercion in psychiatric care as narrated by patients, nurses and physicians
Aim. The aim of the study was to increase understanding of psychiatric patients', nurses' and …

Aims To explore the experience of physical restraints during mechanical ventilation in
intensive care from the perspectives of patients and family members. Design This research …

Introduction Even if coercive measures are widely applied in psychiatry and have numerous
well-known drawbacks, there is limited known on the agreement among mental healthcare …

Background: Studies have demonstrated the extensive use of coercion in Norwegian
nursing homes, which represents ethical, professional as well as legal challenges to the …

In mental health care, experienced coercion, also known as perceived coercion, is defined
as the patient's subjective experience of being submitted to coercion. Besides formal …

Little is known about how different groups of health-care workers compare to each other and
to the general public in their opinions about involuntary admission and treatment. In the …

Eighteen involuntarily hospitalized psychiatric patients narrated their experiences of being
subjected to coercion and their thoughts on how to prevent the coercion. A qualitative …